Musical (2015)
Book, Music and Lyrics by
Dave Malloy
Adapted from War and Peace
by Leo Tolstoy
Directed by Rachel Chavkin
American Repertory Theater
Cambridge, MA
December 6, 2015 – January 3, 2016
A wild, woolly, fun ride through the existential landscapes of Tolstoy’s War and Peace: operatic, rockified and rollicking.
Natasha, Pierre &
Beowulf
Play (2015)
based on Seamus Heaney’s translation
Adapted for the stage by
David Gullette
Directed by Benjamin Evett
The Poet’s Theatre
Cambridge Multicultural Arts Center
Cambridge, MA
December 10-20, 2015
A passionately delivered and interestingly conceived theatrical rendition of the Scandinavian epic in a translation by the great contemporary Irish poet.
Hitchcock/Truffaut
Film (2015)
Documentary
in English and French with subtitles
Directed by Kent Jones
Kendall Square Cinema
Cambridge, MA
With Alfred Hitchcock, François Truffaut, Martin Scorsese, David Fincher, Wes Anderson, Richard Linklater, Olivier Assayas, Peter Bogdanovich, Arnaud Desplechin, James Gray, Kiyoshi Kurosawa, Paul Schrader
An informative and touching account of the collaborative engagement between the two great film directors, when Hitchcock was in his sixties and Truffaut was in his thirties, with running commentary by some of today’s great directors.
It’s A Wonderful Life:
A Live Radio Play
Play (1996)
Adapted by Joe Landry
from Frank Capra’s film
It’s A Wonderful Life (1946)
Directed by Megan Sandberg-Zakian
Merrimack Repertory Theatre
Lowell, MA
November 25 – December 20, 2015
With Nael Nacer, Celeste Oliva, Joel Colodner, Jason Bowen, Veronika Duerr
A beautifully produced adaptation of the popular film, reset as a radio drama performed in 1946.
Buyer and Cellar
Play (2013)
by Jonathan Tolins
Directed by Courtney O’Connor
Lyric Stage Company of Boston
Copley Square area, Boston
December 4, 2015 – January 3, 2016
With Phil Tayler
A terrifically funny and well-acted fantasy about a guy who gets hired to work in Barbra Streisand’s personal basement mall.